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Ried (site)
Ried (site): several archaeological sites named Ried, including Burg Ried am Riederberg, a castle near Vienna built around 1200, and Ried/Mühlehölzli, a 102-grave cemetery in Fribourg, Switzerland.
Riegel
Riegel (Riegel am Kaiserstuhl), Baden-Württemberg, Germany: Roman forts from the mid 1st century AD and a later civitas capital of about 27 ha in Germania superior, with a 75 m basilica, forum, and mithraeum, declining in the 3rd-century crisis.
Ries UNESCO Global Geopark
Ries UNESCO Global Geopark, designated 2022 in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, Germany, protects the Nördlinger Ries, a 25 km asteroid impact crater about 15 million years old, Europe's best-preserved meteorite crater.
Riga National Zoological Garden
Riga National Zoological Garden (Rīga ZOO, Rīgas Nacionālais zooloģiskais dārzs), Latvia's oldest zoo, opened 1912 in Mežaparks, Riga; EAZA member since 1992, 353 species, Masterplan 2035, merged into Rīgas meži in 2026.
Riheoseol Folk Village
Riheoseol Folk Village (리허설민속촌, Riheoseolminsokchon) is a small theme park and living museum of traditional thatched-roof houses in Geochang-eup, Geochang-gun, South Gyeongsang, South Korea, distinct from Korea's larger national folk villages.
Riisitunturi National Park
Riisitunturi National Park (Riisitunturin kansallispuisto), Posio, Finnish Lapland; 77 km² park established 1982, Ramsar site 1528, Natura 2000 FI1301101, famed for hanging blanket mires and snow-crowned spruces.
Rijksmonument
A rijksmonument is a Dutch building, park, or archaeological site designated as a protected national monument by the minister of Education, Culture, and Science; there are about 63,000.
Rijswijk
Rijswijk, South Holland municipality between Delft and The Hague; Roman-inheemse villa site De Bult (excavated by Bloemers 1967-1974), Decius and Caracalla milestones, Peace of Rijswijk 1697, 101 rijksmonumenten.
Ring of Brodgar
Ring of Brodgar: Neolithic stone circle and henge on Mainland Orkney, Scotland; 104 m circle of originally 60 stones (36 survive), rock-cut ditch 136 m across, built around 2600–2400 BC, scheduled 1882.
Ringwall Rentmauer (Weilrod)
Ringwall Rentmauer: an unexcavated, probably Celtic ringwall enclosure on the Eichelberg near Rod an der Weil, Weilrod, Hesse, about 118 × 85 m at 390 m elevation, first recorded in 1849, dating disputed between La Tène and early medieval.
Rinjani Lombok Biosphere Reserve
Rinjani Lombok Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site designated 2018 covering all of Lombok Island (459,097 ha), Indonesia, zoned core-buffer-transition around Mount Rinjani (3,726 m) and the Samalas caldera, co-governed with the Rinjani-Lombok UNESCO Global Geopark by the MIDAS Agency.
Río Abiseo National Park (protected area)
Río Abiseo National Park (Parque Nacional del Río Abiseo) is a 274,520-hectare Peruvian national park in San Martín, created in 1983, a UNESCO mixed World Heritage site (1990 natural, 1992 cultural) protecting cloud forests, the yellow-tailed woolly monkey, and Gran Pajatén archaeology.
Río Blanco
Río Blanco, Ramsar Site no. 2092, is a 2,404,916-hectare wetland of alluvial plains and flooded Amazon forests in Beni, Bolivia, designated 2 February 2013, rich in fish, giant otters, and threatened species.
Rio Coco UNESCO Global Geopark
Rio Coco UNESCO Global Geopark, in Madriz Department, northern Nicaragua, designated 16 July 2020, is Central America's first UNESCO Global Geopark, a 954 km2 territory of five municipalities known for Somoto Canyon.
Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden
The Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, also known as Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian federal botanical garden and research institute founded in 1808 by Prince Regent D. João.
Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea
Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea, a 2012 UNESCO World Heritage serial cultural landscape (criteria v, vi), the first urban cultural landscape, spanning Tijuca forest, Sugar Loaf, Corcovado, and Copacabana.
Rio Kapatchez
Rio Kapatchez is a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance (site 573, designated 18 November 1992) at the Kapatchez river estuary in Boké, Guinea, covering 679,280 ha of mangroves, mudflats, and marshes near Kamsar.
Río Matos
Río Matos (Ramsar Site 2093) is a 1,729,788-hectare wetland of international importance in Beni department, Bolivia, designated 2 February 2013; flooded Amazonian savanna and forest with 24 threatened vertebrate species and 394 fish species.
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, in the Mosquitia region of northeastern Honduras, is the country's largest protected area, a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1980 and World Heritage Site since 1982.
Río San Juan Biosphere Reserve
Río San Juan Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve in southeastern Nicaragua designated in 2003, covering 1,834,107 ha across seven protected areas, with tropical humid forests, wetlands, freshwater sharks, and Ramas and Krioles communities.
Río Yata
Río Yata (Ramsar Site 2094) is a 2,813,229-hectare wetland of international importance in Beni, Bolivia, designated 2 February 2013 along the 1,030 km Yata River, a Mamoré tributary, with 394 fish species and Bolivian river dolphin.
Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape
Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria (Paisaje Cultural de Risco Caído) is a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape in central Gran Canaria, Spain, inscribed 2019 under criteria (iii) and (v) for its troglodyte settlements, Libyco-Berber inscriptions, and astronomical almogarén temples.
Rittium
Rittium (Ῥίττιον), a Roman auxiliary fort on the Danube limes in Pannonia Inferior at Gradina near Surduk, Serbia; garrisoned by ala I Augusta Ituraeorum and others, later equites Dalmatae, with a 2nd-century naval station role.
Rivenhall
Rivenhall is a village and civil parish in the Braintree district of Essex, England, best known for the scheduled Roman villa and early church site around its parish church.
River Gelt Roman Quarry
River Gelt Roman Quarry (Written Rock of Gelt), Cumbria: Roman army sandstone quarries near Brampton supplying Hadrian's Wall repairs, with inscriptions dated AD 207, a carved officer caricature, and scheduled monument protection.
River Luiro Mires
River Luiro Mires (Luiron suot), Ramsar site 1529 in Lapland, Finland, designated 2004: 12,345 ha of aapa mires and raised bogs along the Luiro River, with Finland's most extensive pristine birch fens.
River Wonders
River Wonders is a river-themed wildlife park in Singapore's Mandai Wildlife Reserve, opened in 2014 as the River Safari and known for its giant pandas.
Riviera Maya
Riviera Maya: Caribbean tourist coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico, the roughly 120 km strip between Cancún and Tulum. Known for beachfront resorts, cenotes, Maya sites, the Mesoamerican Reef, and recent Tulum tourism decline.
Rivière Nosivolo et affluents
Rivière Nosivolo et affluents, Ramsar site no. 1916 in eastern Madagascar, designated 17 September 2010; 358,511 ha, 130 km of river, 19 endemic fish species including Oxylapia polli.
Riviere Sangha située en République Centrafricaine
Riviere Sangha située en République Centrafricaine (Sangha River CAR Ramsar site) is Ramsar site no. 1889: 275,000 ha of periodically flooded forest in Sangha-Mbaéré, designated 5 November 2009, rich in elephants, chimpanzees and raphia, threatened by upstream mining siltation.